Who Cares About Marketing Automation?

This isn’t your run of the mill, marketing automation article. You know what the software is and you know what the software does. But why do you need it? How will you use it? Why did you choose a certain platform over all the others?

Here are some eyebrow raising, thought-inducing statistics about first time marketing automation buyers:

91 percent of buyers were evaluating marketing automation software for the first time.

48 percent of buyers used some form of CRM software (either an integrated suite or a best-of-breed application, such as sales force automation).

85 percent of manufacturers in our sample cited the need to nurture leads due to relatively long sales cycles associated with their product.

As Raab Associates, Inc’s own David Raab so eloquently summed it up, “Today there are more channels to market in, more types of marketing programs, more data available for buyer segmentation and higher expectations among your buyers and prospects. As a result, there’s an increasing need for a marketing automation solution to manage these challenges.”

Check it out for yourself and discover the true marketing automation buyer profile. What they’re researching, what industry they’re in, and what tools they’re desperately seeking.